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the human brain is truly amazing and
today i will share with you 10 amazing
english phrases that include the word
brain
so
get your brain into gear
and let's go to
brainwash
to brainwash someone means that you make
them believe that something's true by
constantly telling them that it is so
you manipulate them
to your way of thinking you brainwash
them have you ever been brainwashed
oranges don't grow on trees
they're made in a factory
they're full of pollutants
they will make you sick
it's radioactive
you'll turn orange
it's a plot by the
government a global conspiracy
they're out to get you
to have a brain like a sieve a sieve is
an object in the kitchen that helps to
separate food from water when you've
been boiling it or soaking it in water
it's like a bowl full of holes so the
water just passes straight through and
it catches all the objects that you want
to save now if you have a brain like a
sieve then it means you have a very bad
memory and you forget things so easily
sometimes i feel like i have a brain
like a sieve
what did i do this morning
oh i've forgotten i can't remember
anything these days i've got a brain
like a sieve to have a brain wave this
is very simply to have a very sudden and
clever idea
it just washes over you to have a
brainwave oh i just don't i'm supposed
to make a video but i can't think of any
ideas
what to do um
i know
i'll make a video about
english idioms
yes
to wrap your brain around something
sometimes you'll hear the phrase to wrap
your head around something as well and
this means to be able to fully
understand something to try and
concentrate or focus on it to understand
all the details can you get your brain
around that description
hey what's up
i just can't
work it out
what
how to wrap my brain around this
contract
i mean i i can wrap the contract
around my brain but i don't know how to
do it the other way around to get this
brain around the contract
i just don't understand
if you say your brain is fried it means
that your brain is tired you're mentally
tired and unable to do basic cognitive
tasks like concentrate and make
decisions ugh my brain is fried anna can
we talk about a complicated but
incredibly important matter
i'm sorry
i literally
can't
my brain is fried
oh
yeah that brain is not going to function
any time soon
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to pick someone's brain
this one means that you ask someone for
information or advice because their
brain holds more information than yours
does so you pick at it to try and find
the information that you need
nick
can i pick your brain for a minute yeah
sure
you know i'm just not sure if it's a
good decision to move forward with a
property purchase
now that i know that the last few owners
have popped their clogs in there it is a
tricky one i have to say
if you are described as the brains
behind something like a great idea a new
initiative an event an organization
then
it means that you are the person who
planned it who organized it who
orchestrated the whole thing you are the
brains behind it
thank you so much everyone for
for this amazing award what an honor but
i cannot take all the credit after all i
am just the face of the brand this
company would not exist if it wasn't for
the amazing ideas of brain let me just
bring him out here
to be brain dead now there are two
meanings of brain dead there's a very
literal meaning which means your brain
has sustained an injury that it cannot
recover from it cannot function any
longer or there's the metaphorical
version that we use and when we use it
we're referring to someone who is
completely exhausted mentally and cannot
function anymore or they are a bit
stupid so if you call someone brain dead
be careful of the context because you're
either calling them stupid or you might
be suggesting that they're very mentally
tired in fact i would only ever say that
i am feeling a bit brain dead i'd never
say that anyone else is brain dead
i'm sorry
we did everything we could
she's gone
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are you gonna be okay
it's not funny
next up is brain dump to brain dump is
the act of transferring all the contents
of your mind
based on a particular topic onto a blank
page the point is to declutter your mind
in order to allow you to focus oh i am
full of ideas i can't my head it feels
like it's going to explode i just
there's so much in there hang on a
minute
oh
that's better
what did you just do
oh i just
brain dumped now i can think straight
and our final brain phrase for today is
brain fart
how fantastic the word fart means to
expel gas from your
bottom and brain fart is basically a
temporary mental lapse or a failure to
reason and function mentally
so for example if you forget your name
what's my name uh
sorry i'm just having a brain fart um
anna of course a brain fart it was
lovely to talk to you um can i get your
number
yeah of course it's i want
i'm sorry about that
um oh sorry what was i saying uh yes my
number it's 016
um
um sorry uh my number's oh one six
um
uh so one six one uh no no no no no oh
oh oh six
uh
sorry uh
what did you do that for
think next time
fantastic i hope that your brain has
managed to absorb all of those new
phrases try to use some of them in the
comments section below and put what
you've learned into practice now if
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